en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 7, the 2026 National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) began, with humanoid robots appearing outside exam venues in multiple cities including Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Nanjing to cheer on candidates. The robots encouraged test-takers through dancing, fist bumps, sign-holding, and voice blessings, bringing embodied intelligent devices into the Gaokao support and campus public service scenarios.
Outside the Hangzhou No. 14 Middle School exam venue, several humanoid robots dressed in red cheongsams danced to the rhythm and held up blessing signs, using the symbolism of "a victorious start" to ease pre-exam tension. At some exam venues in Shenzhen, traffic management intelligent robots participated in Gaokao support, allowing candidates to fist-bump and interact with the robots before entering, with the robots simultaneously delivering blessings. Outside the Nanjing No. 9 Middle School exam venue, intelligent robots brought by Southeast University performed backflips, held up cheering signs, and played voice messages such as "Go for it, Gaokao!" on a loop at the school gate. Compared with traditional volunteer services, traffic guidance, and parental support, these robots do not handle core exam organization processes, but through action interaction, voice announcements, and on-site companionship, they have entered public activity service scenarios, moving humanoid robots from exhibitions, laboratories, and factory pilot scenarios into high-density crowds, emotionally charged atmospheres, and urban public service settings.
The value of such applications lies not in a one-time performance, but in providing a low-risk public scenario test sample for humanoid robots.
Humanoid robots outside Gaokao exam venues need to operate in environments with dense crowds, high order sensitivity, and intense emotional concentration, imposing requirements on safety boundaries, action amplitude, voice content, interaction distance, and on-site coordination. Actions such as dancing, fist bumps, sign-holding, and backflips may seem lightweight, but they involve posture control, action stability, human-robot distance judgment, voice interaction, on-site scheduling, and emergency stop mechanisms. The involvement of Shenzhen traffic management robots in exam support scenarios also indicates that urban public management departments are attempting to integrate robots into traffic services, order guidance, and public communication systems. For the humanoid robot industry, scenarios such as campuses, exhibition halls, hospitals, government service halls, transportation hubs, and commercial complexes may form replicable service entry points before homes and complex industrial production lines, because these scenarios have clearer task boundaries, lower action risks, and well-defined interaction needs, facilitating the gradual accumulation of operational data and public acceptance.
This Gaokao cheering event has also further amplified the social communication attributes of humanoid robots. Gaokao itself carries strong public attention, and the appearance of robots in the form of blessings, interaction, and companionship makes them more easily accepted by students, parents, and passersby. Whether they can move from "debut cheering" to routine services will depend on equipment stability, cost, battery life, on-site safety standards, and operator investment. If related capabilities continue to mature, humanoid robots are expected to form more stable application samples in campus orientation, event services, government guidance, traffic promotion, and large-scale event order assistance.
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